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Association Between Cardiovascular Event Type and Smoking Cessation Rates Among Outpatients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Self-reported smoking status was assessed at each consecutive visit and used to determine smoking cessation after each interim ASCVD event (myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, stroke/transient ischemic attack, peripheral artery disease).

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Comorbidities prior to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and diagnoses at discharge among survivors

Open Heart

Methods We used the Swedish Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, merged with the Inpatient Registry and Outpatient Registry to identify patients with OHCA from 2010 to 2020 and to collect all their comorbidities as well as discharge diagnoses (among those admitted to hospital).

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Relationship Between Community-Level Distress and Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation, Facility Access, and Clinical Outcomes After Inpatient Coronary Revascularization

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Outpatient claims were used to identify any CR use within 1 year of discharge. to −5.6%]), and acute myocardial infarction hospitalization (−1.3% [95% CI, −1.5% Beneficiary and CR facility zip codes were used to describe access to CR facilities. to −6.7%]), all-cause hospitalization (−5.9% [95% CI, −6.3%

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Abstract WP229: Comparing the Real-World Effects of Once-Weekly Semaglutide and Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors on Cardiovascular Outcomes, Health Care Resource Utilization, and Medical Costs in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

Stroke Journal

Users of semaglutide OW T2D also had decreased ASCVD-related and all-cause hospitalizations, outpatient visits, hospitalization costs, and total medical costs (allP<0.05). However, no head-to-head trials of these 2 incretin-based drug classes have been conducted.

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See how bad the outcome can be if you don't know OMI findings on the ECG, and don't use the Queen of Hearts

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Case A 43 year old male with a history of DM II, hyperlipidemia, and a family history of myocardial infarction presented to a family clinic with two days of epigastric pain that started after consuming a meal. Because: 1) He has been reading this blog for a long time. 2) He is curious This is how Pendell got started.

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You Are Being Lied To About Cholesterol & Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

This graph shows the absolute and relative risk reduction for statin therapy in preventing heart attacks (Myocardial Infarction), strokes and preventing death from any cause (All-cause mortality) 2. As you can see, statin therapy reduces the risk of heart attacks (myocardial infarction) by close to 30%. J Am Heart Assoc.

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Association between body mass index and clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction and reduced systolic function: Analysis of PARADISE‐MI trial data

European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract Aims The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and clinical outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease, including acute heart failure (AHF) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI), remains debated. Patients were categorized into six World Health Organization BMI subgroups. 100 patient-years for BMI 40kg/m 2 ).